Completing the��FAFSA is one of the most important steps in preparing for or continuing your college education. During this Free FAFSA help session, our financial aid staff will help you complete this important form and answer any other financial aid questions you may have.

WHAT TO BRING

To complete the��FAFSA, you will need access to several personal and financial documents. The FAFSA asks for information from the most recent year’s tax records. If you have not yet filed your taxes for the most recent year, you can use information from a prior year — you will just have to edit your FAFSA later once you have new information.

��Please bring:

• your��FSA ID��(Make sure to register for this at least three days before you want to complete your FAFSA!)
• your parent or guardian’s����(Make sure to register for this at least three days before you want to complete your FAFSA!)
• your driver’s license (if you have one)
• your social security number
• your parents’ social security number (dependent students only)
• Your current tax records and return
• your parents’ current tax records and return (dependent students only)
• your spouse’s current tax records and return (married students only)
• your untaxed income records, including child support, worker’s compensation, untaxed portions of pensions and any other untaxed income you have received
• information about your/your parent’s investments and bank account balances

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Interim President Dr. John McCullough will confer the degrees.

Student speaker Zachary Novel looks forward to his future.

“We are extremely proud of our students and wish them all the best on this important day. The entire campus community celebrates with them, their families and friends. We also welcome all our honored guests and alumni as we congratulate the Class of 2015,” McCullough said.

McCullough has presided as either interim president or provost at 32 commencement ceremonies and��will soon retire after 45 years of service to the university,

Commencement speakers will be two brothers who are active alumni, Dr. Daniel Joseph and Brian Joseph, both of Wheeling.

Dan Joseph serves on the WLU Foundation Board of Directors and formerly served as a member of the Board of Governors. He is a Wheeling orthodontist and he and his wife Debbie, are founders of the annual Wheeling Vintage Raceboat Regatta.

Brian Joseph serves on WLU’s Board of Governors and is the president and chief executive officer��of Touchstone Research Laboratory, located in Triadelphia.

Graduating student speaker is Zachary Novel of New Martinsville, W.Va. A business major, specializing in accounting, he is the highest-ranking student from the Gary E. West College of Business and a member of Delta Mu Delta, where he served as president this semester.

He also is employed at LM Consulting in New Martinsville as a staff accountant, a position he’s held for three years. His post-commencement plans include taking the CPA exam in 2016. Novel is married and he and his wife, Jayme, have two children, Riley, 6 and Isaac, 2.

The Commencement Ceremony will be televised live on WLU Television Comcast Channel 14 and streamed online at .

A reception for graduates, guests and families will be held in the College��Union immediately following the ceremony.

Doors will open for seating at 9:30 a.m. Tickets are not required.�� Parking will be available for guests behind the ASRC.

West Liberty University is a forward-looking, four-year public university steeped in a rich heritage as West Virginia’s oldest institution of higher education. Five colleges and a School of Professional Studies offer more than 60 majors and 30 programs that are nationally recognized or accredited. Graduate programs include the Master of Arts in Education, the Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies and the Master of Professional Studies degrees.

For more information on WLU, please call 1.866.WESTLIB or visit��westliberty.edu.

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The start time for this event is non-typical��– it��will begin at 7:00 pm in Helen Pierce Elbin Auditorium in College Hall. ��This even coincides with the department’s 3-day Tri-State Honor Music Festival (also in its ninth year). ��Talented and highly select��students from the Tri-State region will be on campus and will present their own concert on Saturday afternoon. ��All events in the department of music at West Liberty are FREE and OPEN to the public.

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Matthew Inkster conducting members of the Berlin Philharmonic

Wheeling musician and educator Dr. Matthew Inkster traveled to Provence, France, to conduct 12 members of the Berlin Philharmonic – widely considered the world’s best orchestra.��Inkster was��one of only a handful of conductors worldwide to take part in the workshop, which is a joint project between the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University and musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. ��Other conductors were from Germany, Russia, Australia, Belgium, England, and the U.S.

“I am still so excited about this experience,” Inkster said.��“The musicians coming from Berlin were themselves from six different countries, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Albania, Scotland, and Austria. This speaks to the universality of music, and their passion for the art and their own commitments to teaching from the conductor’s��podium was a life-changing experience.”

The Conductors Lab is hosted by the Vanderbilt Center in Aix-en-Provence, France, and provides a weeklong cooperative learning environment for experienced conductors.��Inkster had to submit a curriculum vitae and a 30-minute DVD of live performance work to be considered for the honor.

Participants conduct an ensemble of Berlin Philharmonic musicians and receive comments and critique in real-time directly from the musicians themselves. Unlike other workshops Inkster has attended in Colorado and Minnesota, the French lab has no master-conducting teacher.��Instead, all feedback is contextualized in follow-up sessions between the musicians and participant conductors, offering conductors a rare opportunity for growth and improvement of skills.

Inkster, who also is the conductor of the��, a post he’s held for the last eight years, is entering his 11th��year as the director of instrumental activities and professor of music at West Liberty University where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and coordinates the brass area.

He is in demand as a guest conductor and clinician—most recently conducting honor and select groups in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, California and New York. He has specialized in conducting the music of our time, and he has led ensembles on several compact disc recordings of new music on American and European labels. His performances have been heard on national and regional NPR and worldwide on the BBC.

Inkster also is active as a trumpet soloist, recitalist and clinician and has performed in 45 states and across Europe. For 12 years, he was principal trumpet of the Symphony of the Mountains (Tennessee/Virginia), and he has held similar positions with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, the Chapman and Redlands Symphony Orchestras (Calif.). He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, and he has competed in a number of the most prestigious trumpet competitions across the world: the Prague Spring International Music Competition, the International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition, the National Trumpet Competition and the Music Teachers National Association’s National Collegiate Artist Competition.

Inkster is the West Virginia Music Educators Association Research and Grants chairman and has recently served as the composition contest chairman for the International Trumpet Guild.

He holds the degrees of Doctor of Music from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla., Master of Music from University of Redlands, Redlands, Calif., and Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo. Inkster also has taught in the public schools of Wyoming, California and Florida.

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